True, I guess the designer came about because I started learning WPF using the drag drop capabilities of the WPF Designer, however the designer was retarded so I started only using it to see what I was doing.

It just made it easier to imagine what I was really doing when I first tried writing in it.

In reality, we dont have to have a visual designer but I know a small group of people might want it.

Ofc I agree something like that shouldnt keep us from going to net core, but Im against the idea that it is useless.

One big thing is that because we are developing the designer, we have a lot of say as to how it operates.... who to say that we can't make the designer much smarter than the WPF designer and keep it agnostic of the markup language and so on and so forth.